Dear Committee Members

by Julie Schumacher

But what did I know about cold war defectors and their families, or about NASA in the 1960s? Not enough: the Chicago Tribune called Save Me for Later a “poor choice of subject, a sort of weird homage to the Stasi,” and The Boston Globe claimed that Alphabetical Stars portrayed John Glenn as “emotionally deformed.”

If you find this excerpt funny, as I did, you might enjoy the book.